Not to mention that there's no place called the "Miracle Mile Shopping Center" in Chicago? He is maybe talking about Water Tower Place or Michigan Avenue more broadly. But right now he's advocating troops for a nonexistent location.

Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup wants to hit a billion users. It's less than 2% of the way there. Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, wants its Orb to scan a billion irises to create a "World ID." Regulators worldwide are sounding the alarm.

One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...

A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool?

Had missed this NYT piece on AI in newsrooms, which is pretty decent except for this egregious comment about AI from Stephen Adler of NYU:

"It excels at analyzing large data sets"

It absolutely does not excel at doing data analysis. It's very good at assisting in the code & approach.

America, 2025: masked men with guns threatening girl scouts collecting food for the needy

YouTube video by Chronos Defied Setnakht – Flesh Intoxication (official video)

A new teaser off the upcoming Setnakht album has been released! Flesh Intoxication is now streaming on Bandcamp and Youtube!

#blackmetalsky #blackmetal #oldschoolblackmetal #witchcraft #satanism #häxan

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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

Insane clown shit

Trump's no longer the only one feeding at the legalized-bribery and legalized-extortion trough—now Senate Republicans want in, too.

It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.

Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.

A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.

U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Thread. A useful way to think about the Heritage Foundation is as a veil of respectability for modern Nazis.

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Five years after releasing the first onslaught, Setnakht’s sophomore album will finally be unleashed on December 12th. Pre-orders for the tapes are open! The new record will contain twelve new attacks. A new video for the fulllength will follow tomorrow!

#blackmetalsky #blackmetal #cassette

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

ICIRR posted this video on their IG of a man and a baby struggling after they’ve both been pepper sprayed by federal agents.

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.

Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

I've defended establishment democrats a lot, as a lot of what they do has some justification, but this is my own breaking point. There is literally no good reason to cave now after holding on for so long. Either cave right away so people don't suffer for no reason, or ACTUALLY hold the damn line.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

When so many people are facing food insecurity, I also think of their pets. Sharing some resources for pet food etc.

Pie Chart: Distribution of shutdown days since 1980 As of Nov. 8, 2025. Reagan G.H.W. Bush Trump (second term) Clinton Obama Trump (first term) Wikipedia

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
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Oh phew.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

By targeting the CFPB, the Trump administration wants this to be the future

Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month Officials say commissaries will be open through Thanksgiving, but many stateside stores could close soon after due to the government shutdown.

So they blocked full SNAP payments and they may also close almost all the commissaries in the states, in about a month and the ones abroad by the end of the year bc of the shut down.
But at least they and ICE still get paid.

taskandpurpose.com/news/commiss...

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:

- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.